Capital Of The World
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Capital Of The World
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Author : Charlene Mires
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2015-04-08
Capital Of The World written by Charlene Mires and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-08 with History categories.
From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, Americans in more than two hundred cities and towns mobilized to chase an implausible dream. The newly-created United Nations needed a meeting place, a central place for global diplomacy—a Capital of the World. But what would it look like, and where would it be? Without invitation, civic boosters in every region of the United States leapt at the prospect of transforming their hometowns into the Capital of the World. The idea stirred in big cities—Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis, New Orleans, Denver, and more. It fired imaginations in the Black Hills of South Dakota and in small towns from coast to coast. Meanwhile, within the United Nations the search for a headquarters site became a debacle that threatened to undermine the organization in its earliest days. At times it seemed the world’s diplomats could agree on only one thing: under no circumstances did they want the United Nations to be based in New York. And for its part, New York worked mightily just to stay in the race it would eventually win. With a sweeping view of the United States’ place in the world at the end of World War II, Capital of the World tells the dramatic, surprising, and at times comic story of hometown promoters in pursuit of an extraordinary prize and the diplomats who struggled with the balance of power at a pivotal moment in history.
Capital Cities Around The World
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Author : Roman A. Cybriwsky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Capital Cities Around The World written by Roman A. Cybriwsky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Capitols categories.
This informative resource is a fascinating compilation of the history, politics, and culture of every capital city from around the world, making this the only singular reference on the subject of its kind.
Capital Cities Around The World
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Author : Roman Adrian Cybriwsky
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2013-05-23
Capital Cities Around The World written by Roman Adrian Cybriwsky and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-23 with Science categories.
This informative resource is a fascinating compilation of the history, politics, and culture of every capital city from around the world, making this the only singular reference on the subject of its kind. Every country, even the world's youngest nations, has a capital city—a centralized location which houses the seat of government and acts as the hub of culture and history. But, what role do capital cities play in the global arena? Which factors have influenced the selection of a municipal center for each nation? This interesting encyclopedia explores the topic in great depth, providing an overview of each country's capital—its history and early inhabitants, ascension to prominence, infrastructure within the government, and influence on the world around them. The author considers the culture and society of the area, discussing the ethnic and religious groups among those who live there, the major issues the residents face, and other interesting cultural facts. Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture features the capital cities of 200 countries across the globe. Organized in alphabetical order by country, each profile combines social studies, geography, anthropology, world history, and political science to offer a fascinating survey of each location.
Capital City
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Author : Color Smart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-06-17
Capital City written by Color Smart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-17 with categories.
The capital City is the area of a country, province, region, or state regarded as enjoying primary status and it is generally recognized as a city which physically encompasses the offices and meeting places of the seat of government, or which is fixed by law or by the constitution.In some jurisdictions, including several countries, the different branches of government are located in different settlements. In some cases, a distinction is made between the official (constitutional) capital and the seat of government, which is in another place.Capital cities are also the prime economic, cultural, or intellectual center of a nation or an empire is sometimes referred to as a primate city. Examples include Athens, Beijing, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Cairo, London, Mexico City, Paris, Stockholm, Tokyo, and Warsaw.Although many capitals are defined by constitution or legislation, many long-time capitals have no legal designation as such: for example Bern, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London, Paris, and Wellington. They are recognized as capitals as a matter of convention, and because all or almost all the country's central political institutions, such as government departments, supreme court, legislature, embassies, etc., are located in or near them.
A Local History Of Global Capital
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Author : Tariq Omar Ali
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-31
A Local History Of Global Capital written by Tariq Omar Ali and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-31 with Business & Economics categories.
Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed fiber in the world, after cotton. While the sack circulated globally, the plant was cultivated almost exclusively by peasant smallholders in a small corner of the world: the Bengal delta. This book examines how jute fibers entangled the delta's peasantry in the rhythms and vicissitudes of global capital. Taking readers from the nineteenth-century high noon of the British Raj to the early years of post-partition Pakistan in the mid-twentieth century, Tariq Omar Ali traces how the global connections wrought by jute transformed every facet of peasant life: practices of work, leisure, domesticity, and sociality; ideas and discourses of justice, ethics, piety, and religiosity; and political commitments and actions. Ali examines how peasant life was structured and restructured with oscillations in global commodity markets, as the nineteenth-century period of peasant consumerism and prosperity gave way to debt and poverty in the twentieth century. A Local History of Global Capital traces how jute bound the Bengal delta's peasantry to turbulent global capital, and how global commodity markets shaped everyday peasant life and determined the difference between prosperity and poverty, survival and starvation.
Capital Of The World
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Author : David Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2012-09-04
Capital Of The World written by David Wallace and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-04 with History categories.
A portrait of NewYork City in the roaring twenties.
Capital Cities Varieties And Patterns Of Development And Relocation
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Author : Vadim Rossman
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2018-03-12
Capital Cities Varieties And Patterns Of Development And Relocation written by Vadim Rossman and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-12 with Architecture categories.
The issue of capital city relocation is a topic of debate for more than forty countries across the world. In this first book to discuss the issue, Vadim Rossman offers an in-depth analysis of the subject, highlighting the global trends and the key factors that motivate different countries to consider such projects, analyzing the outcomes and drawing lessons from recent capital city transfers worldwide for governments and policy-makers. Capital Cities studies the approaches and the methodologies that inform such decisions and debates. Special attention is given to the study of the universal patterns of relocation and patterns specific to particular continents and mega-regions and particular political regimes. The study emphasizes the role of capital city transfers in the context of nation- and state-building and offers a new framework for thinking about capital cities, identifying six strategies that drive these decisions, representing the economic, political, geographic, cultural and security considerations. Confronting the popular hyper-critical attitudes towards new designed capital cities, Vadim Rossman shows the complex motives that underlie the proposals and the important role that new capitals might play in conflict resolution in the context of ethnic, religious and regional rivalries and federalist transformations of the state, and is seeking to identify the success and failure factors and more efficient implementation strategies. Drawing upon the insights from spatial economics, comparative federalist studies, urban planning and architectural criticism, the book also traces the evolution of the concept of the capital city, showing that the design, iconography and the location of the capital city play a critical role in the success and the viability of the state.
Capital Of The World
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Author : Rob Kovitz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Capital Of The World written by Rob Kovitz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Artists' books categories.
Garlic Capital Of The World
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Author : Pauline Adema
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2009
Garlic Capital Of The World written by Pauline Adema and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Cooking categories.
How a local festival celebrating the odiferous lily gave a town a marketable identity
Estimation Of Social Capital In The World
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language : en
Publisher: Fundacion BBVA
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Estimation Of Social Capital In The World written by and has been published by Fundacion BBVA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.